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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY,
JULY 30, 1938.
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At the Cinema-with P. L. Mannock
Star says Yes
RECIOUS little privacy
or peace attends the ex- istence of any well- known screen star.
In Hollywood your house is a regular halt for sightseers in motor-coaches. If you hold a party, the "sob-sister" Press must be invited; if you dine out, it. is understood that men with flash-bulbs have access to your table. Your name is linked in print with anyone seen with you mère than once.
Why? Naturally many of the stars simply love it; the more ser- sitive ones have admitted to me hat they hate it, and go far away from the studios whenever they get the chance.
All this ballyhoo and fatuous "int- mate detail" about flm playera-who are not demi-gods but mostly very ordi- nary peoptr--15 nimply because they nce the anal famous people to the world
Millions who have never heard of Einstein, Shaw or Wells are familiar with Shirley Temple and Wheeler and Woolacy
Deplorable, ink there it is. And part of screen fame is the publicity that is behind the pictures. No oner Inn accoчs made than vast world-
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curioally about the pinyer has to be anlifted and constantly fed, often with appalling buck and stupid trivialities.
Ad established player," Bette Davis told me once, in allly to reorn the Press and publie interest, because it is part of her career in films."
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My reflections, However, Are prompted by the news . Maude Adania. greatest of American actresses, han sigrid a contract for films, after 1: M retiesiang to do so for 20 years.
20 years, by the way, since she retired from the stage.
What are they going to do about publicity for Maude Adams? She Is the
st shrinking edebrity in the world. Perhaps she caught from Darric
played who adored her since she "Peter Pan."
Charles Frohman would never allow He would
her to be seen by the Press
t let her cat in public. He banned
Ir visit to London.
When Frolinan went down in the Lusitania, rumour began that she was tus wife. But she has never married: wad at 65 this mystery actress is to play in line for David Belzalek. We in Britain ahall at least see her moving photographs.
NEW FILMS L'Alibi
STARS: Eric van Stroheim, Jany
Holl. Detective drama.
You know the murderer is Erle von Strohble all the time; but Eric's suave, masterful guilt a well worth watching, and the police chief (Couls Jouvet) also gives a
drst-rate per- formance.
A nice, temperamental midinette of a heroine (Jany Holt) and Albert Prejean 15 her thirsty, suspected awain, make up the main personnel of a crime tale fairly ordinary but not without real suspense.
I commend this intelligent (and in- telligible French picture, chiefly as a relief from angry District Attorneys 11 boorish
Its American cops. settings are simple but interesting, and Il re not aspire to being anything great.
Orage
Boyer, Micholo
Caries STARS:
Morgia. Romance. HOLLYWOOD meroitully allows M. Bayer to make one flim a year in Europe, and this enables us to sve, in an exquisitely-handled Parisian domes tic story, some of the most delightful love scenes over seen on the screen.
M. Boyer is gentler than ever when
after 20 years
Wallace Beery and Maureen O'Sullivan in "Port of Seven Seas. due at the Empire, Leicester Square, next week.
speaking his own language, and Mölle. Morgan must be the most beautiful and jateligent screen actress
Prusice.
The twe is one of a husband's aide. stepping, and its ilkelt quality does not appear at all-but. ns we all know, thoe French are clever that way. Its by Henry Bernstein, the dramatist whose duelling propensities crept into the news colutans the other day; and 1 ts directed with considerable skill especially its contrasts of fun and
Serv
Cocoanut Grove
STARS: Fred MacMurray. Harriet
Bard. Romance With
music.
red of
KENT you just a little
dance-band leader heroes? 1 am. Fred MacMurray is the latest of them. A pugnacious Ichlow who loses enga menta, his boys get discontented.
They all go across the U.S.A, in trailer, and, after mishaps, arrive aL the California hotel for which this pic- ture in a boast. Through treachery the wrong band is engaged at a radio nudition, but at the last moment they nip in and make good, keeping things going until the leading pair arrive.
I like Mr. MacMurray and furriet Hilliard, who plays a governess to his adopted brat, does attractive contralto vocalism and acts tenderly, Ben Blue, the Yacht Club Boys, no u rural songster-mimie, Rufe Davis, bump out the entertainment.
All the rowdy, anobbish bragging of American night-life professionals is here, and the pleture is a noisy one apart from the musical nido.
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I have often wondered why, when n
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SLIGHT CASE OF MURDER- Corpses in Edourd G. Robinson's cupboard, and a killingly funny story.
BANK HOLIDAY.-Excellent study of British mass whoopee, with Margaret Lockwood, lovely new star.
THE BAD MAN OF BRIMSTONE- Wallace Beery, Virginia Bruce and lots of hooves, saloons and trigger. nometry.
BLOCKADE, - Madeleine Carroll, Henry Fonda and trenchant Spanieli war scenca. (Sertai story of the flim is on Pago 14).
STAR of the WEEK
Fred MacMurray, ace of the lanky heroic school, vainly tried to crash Hollywood; finally signed from Broadway stage for "Gilded Lily" with Claudette Colbert. Scored also, in "Hands Across the Table," "The Bride Comea Home," "Exclusive," "Trail of the Lonesome
currently in Pino
Cocoanut Grove"; now making "Men With Wings."
Six feet threa, 29; son of violinist; started as saxophonist. Married to Lillian Lamont, former mannequin. Hales prease-paint, and won't use it,
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new tume is composed on the screen, everybody halls it as great after the first three bars, and any orchestr can Join in then and there,
1 ts becauine has now dawned on me. the tune, almost without exception, is exactly like every other Lune, thus pre- seating no difficulties.
General Releases MIRIAM HOPKINS and Ray MI- laf. but naturally alimctive, play capitally in Wise Gin, an irre
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Plot, of a set of orphaned children and their rival would-be guardians, is light-hearted to the point of craziness! but the dialogue is crisp and situations quite bright.
Kay Franels is the ambitious apouso of a Cabinet Minister in First Lady, supported by Verree Teasdale. Walter Connolly and Presion Foster.
The social scene is entertaining and amusingly populated. although the political tire of United States condi tions is a little too ponderous and foreign for complete British under- standing.
A trick played on the greatest of English actors, whereby the Comédie Française company Impersonate the staff of an inn, forma the flimsy plot of The Great Garrick. Brian Aherne. in the name part, is full of dash and vitality.
A very mixed bag of players includes Olivia de Havilland, Edward Everett Horton, Lionel Atwill and Melville Cooper. They do their best in the 18th- century settings, but the whole thing in a damp squlb of a story, utterly forced and convincing.
Customary round-up of mountain thugs by the forces of law and order is the crux of Trapped by G-fen, which in largely open-air in its lively action. Jack Holt I still think splendid, and Wynne Gibson reuppents to advantage
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